The Columbia Athletic Training and Sports Medicine Program provides a valuable service to the 750 athletes that compete at Columbia University. The goal is a simple one - to be the best athletic training service in the Ivy League and strive to equal any NCAA Division I program in the country.

Under the tutelage of head trainer Jim Gossett, Columbia has achieved an outstanding national reputation and employs an excellent staff that includes seven full-time athletic trainers. Dr. William N. Levine of Columbia University's Medical Center serves as the Chief Team Physician and Orthopedic Surgeon, and Dr. Gloria Cohen, Family Practice and Sports Medicine Specialist, is a team physician.

The Columbia program has left its mark throughout the country in both the professional and collegiate ranks, as close to 20 graduate assistants and former assistants have gone on to exciting and impressive professional careers in sports medicine, including Bill Peters, who has worked with the New York Jets of the National Football League, Eric Rozen, who is the head athletic trainer at the University of Rochester, and Gene Schafer, who has started his own fitness club in the Columbia area.